Improvement in fences



N. WESTGOTT.

Fence.

No. 202,905. Patented April 23,1878.

WlTNESSES INVENTOR.

E ATTORNEYS N PETERS. FHOTO-LITHQGRAPHEF, WASHINGTON, D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NORMAN WESTGOTT, OF MORRISVILLE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 202,905, dated April 23, 1878 application filed March 30, 1878.

, To all whom t't may concern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN Wnsrcorr, of Morrisvi-lle, in the county of Madison and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is arepresentation of a perspective view of my fence, and Fig. 2 is an end View thereof.

The nature of my invention relates to the construction of rail-fences, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

The annexed drawings, to which reference is made, fully illustrate my invention.

Each support or post of my fence is composed of two stakes, A A, crossing each other and connected together below the point of crossing by a wire, a, twisted andtied around them, as shown. This wire supports arail, B, just below the crotch, which rail binds the stakes in such a manner that the fence will be strengthened by adding a top rail, 0, to rest in the crotch of the stakes. It is also stiffened By this construction the stakes A need not be fastened or inserted in the ground, as is now usually done in this class of fences, but may stand upon the top of the ground, and can be readily taken down by removing first the top and bottom rails, and then bringing the feet of the stakes together, when the other rail comes out readily, and the fence may be removed to another place or packed away.

By removing the top and bottom rails a good winter fence remains, thus avoiding drifting of snow by the fence.

The fence is very simple in construction, and can be easily and cheaply made, requiring no skilled mechanic to make and put up the same.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with the crossed stakes A, wire a, and rail B, as described, the top rail G,resting in the crotch of the stakes, and the bottom rail D, suspended by a wire, b, from wire a, as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed myname in the presence of two witnesses.

NORMAN WESTGOTT.

Witnesses:

J OSEPHAS G. GURLEY, DWIGHT E. SHIPMAN. 

